Good order is never a given. It is a question we keep asking.
Independent writing on law, politics & society
Public life,
examined.
A bilingual publication for arguments that deserve evidence, context and a wider conversation.
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All essays ↗↗- 01The quiet power of procedureWe argue about outcomes. The rules that decide how outcomes are reached deserve at least as much attention.↗↗
- 02What a parliament is forPassing laws is only one of a legislature's jobs, and not always the most important one.↗↗
- 03How to read a court decisionA citizen's guide to the parts of a judgment that matter — and the parts news coverage usually skips.↗↗
- 04Elections are not the whole of democracyVoting is the most visible part of self-government. It depends on conditions that are much harder to see.↗↗
IIIA letter
Dear reader,
I started Eunomia because the questions that shape our life together — who makes the rules, whether they are fair, how power is held to account — are too often argued in slogans or buried in footnotes. I wanted a place in between: writing researched enough to trust and clear enough to share.
It is written for students finding their way into law and politics, for readers who follow public life without a law degree, and for anyone, anywhere, who wants to follow these debates in English or Turkish.
We will not always be right. When we are wrong, we will say so in public. What I can promise is care: to ask precisely, to show the evidence, and to write for you.
With care,
Ahmet Haktan Eker
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
IVThe name
eu, “good” + nomos, “law”
Why Eunomia?
In Hesiod’s Theogony, Eunomia is one of the Horae, the daughters of Zeus and Themis: the goddess of good order and lawful conduct. Solon later gave her name to a poem arguing that a city is ruined not by the gods but by its own citizens — and that good order is what sets it right.
- ΕὐνομίαEunomiaGood order
- ΔίκηDikeJustice
- ΕἰρήνηEirenePeace
Good order is never a given. It is a public question — the one this publication exists to ask.
VResearch
Research
notes.
VIThe questions
Four questions
we keep asking.
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Public life
How citizens argue, decide and live together in shared space.
02 pieces
Institutions
Courts, parliaments and agencies — how they are designed and how they drift.
01 piece
Justice
Rights, remedies and the distance between law on paper and law in practice.
01 piece
Democracy
Elections, representation and the conditions that keep self-government alive.
VIIAn invitation
Questions worth
staying with.
We publish careful arguments for a public audience. If there is a question you cannot stop thinking about, pitch it to us.